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Tue, 16 Jan 2024 16:27:29 +0000

Project summaryWhat I think about it once is done, what went well, what I had struggled with and what ideas I got from working on it. This is the […]

Kasia Idzi wrote a new post on the site Kasia Idzi

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 13:45:10 +0000

My research question “How as Course Librarians can we better support our Wimbledon students in evaluating and using variety of library resources to promote […]

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Tue, 16 Jan 2024 13:35:36 +0000

Slides for the presentation of the project. I will use them more as prompts. I did not want to put too much text in them. The problem I may have though is to be able to finish within 10 minutes. Fingers […]

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Tue, 16 Jan 2024 11:43:20 +0000

Padlet with notes on reading about research question design – https://artslondon.padlet.org/kidzi1/research-question-pxjnvzbmxeufzn2b

I took me quite a long time to narrow down my research question.

The […]

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Tue, 16 Jan 2024 10:59:02 +0000

Allison, B., Owen, A., Rothwell, A., O’Sullivan, T., Rice, J., Saunders, C. (2016) Research skills for students. London: Routledge.

Banks, S. (2016) ‘Everyday ethics in professional life: social work as […]

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Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:23:00 +0000

What I have learnt and how I recorded it – guide to my blog and ARP Unit journey

I start with the fact that this is the first time I have been working on an action research project (ARP).

I started by […]

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Mon, 15 Jan 2024 13:06:37 +0000

How I decided on my topic:

I am an Assistant Academic Support Librarian working at the UAL Wimbledon Library.

When deciding on my research query for this ARP project, I knew I would like to focus on te […]

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Mon, 15 Jan 2024 08:48:36 +0000

The focus group I facilitated was smaller than I had planned. Main reason was that it was December and many people in my team were taking leave at that time. It was similar case in the beginning of January. I […]

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Sat, 13 Jan 2024 19:10:09 +0000

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By the time I started planning my focus group I had done lots of reading on my research topic (see this category in my blog , especially readings on evaluating sources of […]

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Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:08:13 +0000

Reading chapters D2 Working with data and D4 Thematic analysis from Matthews, B. and Ross, L. (2010) Research methods: a practical guide for the social sciences. Harlow: Longman, Pearson Education

D2 Working w […]

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Sat, 13 Jan 2024 13:36:52 +0000

In order to prepare myself for data analysis I read as much as I could on the topic in a given time. I started with two short texts, just to get a feeling of what data analysis involves. I hoped to get some […]

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Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:27:53 +0000

In my research question I focused on evaluating library resources part of IL and have done lots of reading on this specific aspect of my profession too. I treated it differently to the readings that I included in […]

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Fri, 12 Jan 2024 11:18:40 +0000

I used MS Forms for my questionnaire and it proved to be the right choice. It provided a very nice, ‘clean’ looking questionnaire, gave enough space for responses to the open-ended questions and it made it easy […]

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Wed, 10 Jan 2024 16:40:56 +0000

I started working on the questionnaire by asking myself why I am using it and what I need to know, following the recurring advice from my readings on the subject (blog post).

I decided to use questionnaire to […]

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Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:09:18 +0000

When I started reading more about research methods, the interviews and focus groups seemed the most relevant to my research. Then when I read about the questionnaires it made me think they could provide me with […]

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Sun, 07 Jan 2024 11:19:32 +0000

Planning reading about topics related to my research question

I created the Readings on my topic category to document what I have been learning during my ARP Unit regarding my profession (in relation to my […]

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Sat, 06 Jan 2024 15:48:38 +0000

Kurbanoğlu, S., Boustany, J. (2014). From Green Libraries to Green Information Literacy. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R. (eds) Information Literacy. Lifelong Learning an […]

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Sat, 06 Jan 2024 15:44:56 +0000

Hauke, P. (2018), “From information literacy to green literacy: training librarians as trainers for sustainability literacy”, Paper Presented at the IFLA World Library and Information Conference (WLIC), Kuala Lum […]

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Sat, 06 Jan 2024 10:16:43 +0000

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Townsend, A.K. (2014) ‘Environmental sustainability and libraries: facilitating user awareness’, Library Hi Tech News, 31(9), pp. 21-23. doi: 1 […]

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Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:11:32 +0000

Paterson, S.F. and Gamtso, C.W. (2023) ‘Interrogating representations of transgressive women: Using critical information literacy and comic books in the Shakespeare classroom’, Art Libraries Journal, 48(3), pp. 8 […]

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Fri, 05 Jan 2024 14:43:18 +0000

Reale, M. (2012) ‘Critical Pedagogy in the Classroom: Library Instruction that Gives Voice to Students and Builds a Community of Scholars’, Journal of Library Innovation, 3(2), pp. 80-88.

The article starts […]

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Fri, 05 Jan 2024 14:33:54 +0000

Smith, L. 2013. Towards a model of critical information literacy instruction for the development of political agency. Journal of Information Literacy, 7(2), pp.15-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.11645/7.2.1809

This […]

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Wed, 03 Jan 2024 11:13:57 +0000

I think this was one of the most helpful chapters on analysing data that I read for this project. However, when I’d first read it for our third workshop, I was at such an early stage of my research that I got q […]

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Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:51:57 +0000

Matthews, B. and Ross, L. (2010) Research methods: a practical guide for the social sciences. Harlow: Longman, Pearson Education. Extract pp.234-251.

This chapter was very helpful when I was deciding b […]

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Sun, 31 Dec 2023 14:52:09 +0000

This article got my attention because it talks about information literacy and self-learning. It was a perfect reading after the article by Kuan-nien Chen and Pei-chun Lin (blog post here) who highlighted that […]

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Sun, 31 Dec 2023 11:31:00 +0000

Chen, K. and Lin, P. (2011) ‘Information literacy in university library user education’, Aslib Proceedings, 63(4), pp. 399-418. doi: https://doi-org.arts.idm.oclc.org/10.1108/00012531111148967.

This is a ve […]

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Sat, 30 Dec 2023 13:40:35 +0000

My Padlet that helped me organise research methods resources

When I started to read about research methods, I got overwhelmed by the sheer volume of resources that are available to us on the subject. To […]

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Fri, 29 Dec 2023 12:15:36 +0000

The workshop was most helpful for me in terms of looking at the research cycle and thinking at what stage of the cycle I am at. I had been struggling with my research question and working on my Ethical […]

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Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:47:51 +0000

Templin, C. (2022) ‘Why Citation matters: Ideas on a feminist approach to research – Blog ABV Gender- & Diversitykompetenz’, Freie Universitat Berlin, . Available at: […]

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Thu, 28 Dec 2023 14:06:48 +0000

I found it very difficult to finish my enquire form. I think it was mostly due to not having my research question defined for quite a long time. Additionally, I say that in number of my posts and writing for my […]

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Thu, 28 Dec 2023 13:40:08 +0000

I did not experienced many issues when designing these documents. I think we were provided with very good templates for this task. Additionally, I worked on most of the issues that I could have come across here […]

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Thu, 28 Dec 2023 13:10:19 +0000

chapter 3 in Creative research methods in the social sciences: a practical guide (2015).

I found this chapter very useful in terms of introduction to ethics, even though many of the areas discussed here felt […]

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Thu, 28 Dec 2023 11:45:14 +0000

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Recent trends in ethics “represent attempts to broaden the domain of professional ethics beyond dilemmas and decision-making requiring rational judgement ( […]

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Wed, 27 Dec 2023 15:33:15 +0000

My main takeouts from the first part of the workshop:

What is ARP?

Small scale enquiry Master-level research PhD study Process that can be continued and developed further Action research ≠ activis […]

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Sat, 07 Oct 2023 14:25:46 +0000

In: Interpreting Interviews, by Mats Alvesson pages: 9-42

This is another great article that provides an introduction and an overview of one of the research methods. I’ve never used the interviews in r […]

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Sat, 07 Oct 2023 12:40:45 +0000

This article is very useful, especially for someone who is quite new to the idea of action research (AR) (me included). The author introduces the idea in a very approachable way and provides more in-depth […]

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Sat, 15 Jul 2023 14:25:25 +0000

Many thanks for you comment Jackie. I feel like I’m learning so much from engaging with the resources for this unit and I can only hope that I continue to develop a better understanding of the issues surrounding race.

In reply to - Kasia Idzi wrote a new post on the site Kasia Idzi Fists Raised In Solidarity. 2016-2018. Artstor, library-artstor-org.arts.idm.oclc.org/asset/24407953 1. Shades of Noir (SoN) – how I could use it in my […]

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Sun, 09 Jul 2023 13:56:37 +0000

Hello Jo. Another great blog post! It resonates with me a lot, as similarly to you I was brought up as Catholic and left the church structures as a teenager. Listening to Kwame and reading your reflections made me think more about how we are shaped by the beliefs of our families and how without having our faith we still can recognise and respect…Read more

In reply to - Joanne McVey wrote a new post on the site Jo McVey Faith As someone culturally raised a Catholic who does not practice this as a faith, I would say that I am an Atheist, I found looking into the theories […]

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Sat, 01 Jul 2023 13:59:38 +0000

Fists Raised In Solidarity. 2016-2018. Artstor, library-artstor-org.arts.idm.oclc.org/asset/24407953

1. Shades of Noir (SoN) – how I could use it in my practice?

We have been using Shades of Noir […]

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Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:10:55 +0000

Hi Joanne. I agree with Jackie that this is a really nicely written blog post. 🙂 The two Shades of Noir articles you chose have got my attention. I am not familiar with them. They both talk about invisible disabilities, which is a subject that I am especially drawn to, having experienced it myself. I am going back to the resource and read both…Read more

In reply to - Joanne McVey wrote a new post on the site Jo McVey Disability Finding out more about what it means to be a less abled bodied person through these three sources has given me a sense of how as an able bodied […]

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Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:05:48 +0000

Many thanks Jackie and Joanne for your comments. I am reading your blogs at the moment and I can see what Joanne means saying that my blog made her think further about the resources. I feel the same reading yours. It is very enriching to see how we all focused on slightly different aspects of each reading or video and how we can relate it to our…Read more

In reply to - Kasia Idzi wrote a new post on the site Kasia Idzi Photo by Darrel Und: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photography-of-people-connecting-their-fingers-1023828/ For this blog I chose to reflect on 3 resources […]

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Sat, 20 May 2023 12:51:52 +0000

Calhoun, C. and Modood, T. (2015) Religion in Britain: Challenges for higher education. London: Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.

Image by Chuk Yong from Pixabay

I’ve focused on the following thr […]

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Sat, 13 May 2023 08:53:21 +0000

Photo by Darrel Und: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photography-of-people-connecting-their-fingers-1023828/

For this blog I chose to reflect on 3 resources from our recommended reading:

Disability and […]

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Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:07:34 +0000

Mandala of compassion, [Photography]. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Retrieved 12 Mar 2023, fromhttps://quest.eb.com/search/151_2516945/1/151_2516945/cite

I mentioned before in my blog that I would like t […]

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Tue, 21 Mar 2023 11:49:21 +0000

Dall’Alba, G. (2005) ‘Improving teaching: Enhancing ways of being university teachers’, Higher Education Research and Development, 24(4), pp. 361-372. doi: 10.1080/07294360500284771.

Study group. [ […]

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Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:41:55 +0000

Library Services response to climate change and justice

Exploring climate justice resources available to the UAL members of staff (see my other blog post) inspired me to talk about it with my fellow […]

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Mon, 20 Mar 2023 11:29:20 +0000

Exploring the Staff Development UAL resource

Photo by Vlad Sokhin (2011)

I have been educating myself about the subject of Climate Justice for a while now. I include resources on sustainability and climate […]

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Sat, 18 Mar 2023 17:57:23 +0000

I felt a bit nervous about this first workshop. I thought that as a librarian I may not (and most probably do not) have as many teaching hours as other students on the course. It is because teaching is only a […]

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Sat, 18 Mar 2023 16:45:45 +0000

Reading for Values and Ethics in Teaching seminar

Background photo by Michael Heinrich: https://www.pexels.com/photo/green-leaf-tree-72509/

I chose to read the bell hooks’ text recommended for Values and […]

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Sat, 18 Mar 2023 14:11:47 +0000

I had never run a microteach session based on OBL in my practice before. I wanted to use objects meaningful to me. First, I thought of using something from Poland that reminds me of the country and/or my family. […]